Windows 10: Power light blinking blue instead of solid orange when in sleep mode

I have a 10 year old HP Pavilion desktop that was just refurbished. When I put the computer in sleep mode, the power button now blinks blue, instead of solid orange, which is the way it used to be. I would like to change it back to solid orange when in sleep mode. Is there any way to correct this? Please help!

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Windows 10 black screen, shuts down during boot

What works for me is when the computer screen goes black, put it in the sleep mode by hitting Fn + F4. This changes the power light from blue to blinking orange. Then hit the touchpad, and the logon screen comes on like it's supposed to.

 

Nokia N73 light sensor don't light.

If it doesn't flash blue anymore that probably means you have turned sleep mode off the blue light only blinks when you put it into sleep mode on, if it's on sleep mode and the blue light doesn't blink that's a bonus because my brothers says hes n73 is
bothering him at night.

 

Several things come to mind:

Did you change the motherboard, power supply, case, or anything else? I have an HP Pavilion 500-056. I've changed sleep options to go to sleep after one minute of inactivity. I'll be back in a few to tell you what "color" sleep is.

 

Oh, BTW, welcome to TenForums, Smith.

 

I'm back. My light is solid white when the computer's being used and a flashing white light when the computer's sleeping.

Also, you might check to see if the bulb for your power button has been changed.

 

Wynona's probably right - the power button may have been replaced with a more modern blue LED indicator lamp during the refurb, rather than the older orange type - which are possibly hard to come by today.

Failing getting an original replacement power button, the only solution I can think of is a plastic "cap" for the button which contains an orange phosphor - which will glow (fluoresce) orange when illuminated with the short wavelength blue emission from the LED. I imagine acrylic sheet is produced with day-glo fluorescent orange pigments, easily cut into a disk and polished to give a domed cap for a button.

As a relevant aside, most LEDs in production today - whatever their output colour, are constructed as blue LEDs, coated with phosphors that change the output colour from blue to white (warm or cold), greens from cool bluish minty greens to yellower lime greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and magentas - all the colours of your Christmas lights.

Electronically, different native colour-emitting LEDs - reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues and violets all have slightly different voltage/current requirements, so designing circuits for these were more complicated than the modern blue + coloured phosphor lamps which have a single voltage/current requirement.

 

Very interesting, Fafhrd. Thanks for the explanation.